ICMA Podcast

Electronic trading in Asia-Pacific bond markets

Mushtaq Kapasi, Head of ICMA Asia Pacific, talks to Riad Chowdhury, Head of Asia Pacific, MarketAxess about where and why fixed income e-trading continues to grow, how to navigate the complexity and fragmentation of Asian markets, and emerging opportunities in 2023 for trading platforms as well as investors.

Building resilience in the global bond markets

Bryan Pascoe, Chief Executive of ICMA, discusses efforts underway to boost global bond markets resilience following post-covid socio-economic shocks.

Cessation of panel bank US dollar LIBOR: implications for bonds under English law

Paul Richards, Head of Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, reports on the cessation of panel bank US dollar LIBOR and the implications for bonds under English law.

The Asian international bond markets: development and trends

Mushtaq Kapasi, Managing Director, Chief Representative for Asia Pacific and Yanqing Jia, Associate Director, Asia Pacific speak about the third edition of the ICMA report on Asian international bond markets, which provides an updated overview of market development and analysis of market events through the end of 2022.

ICMA’s drive to support industry innovation through FinTech and Digitalisation

Georgina Jarratt, Managing Director, Head of FinTech and Digitalisation, provides an overview of ICMA's work on the automation and digitalisation of the industry as a whole, sharing insights into the strategic focus and objectives for the team over the next 1-2 years.

UK Edinburgh Reforms: prospectus regime

ICMA's Ruari Ewing, Secretary, ICMA Primary Market Practices Committee discusses the replacement of the UK’s prospectus regime.

MiFIR review and bond market transparency

Andy Hill, head of ICMA Secondary Markets, provides an update on the ongoing MiFIR Review from the perspective of the proposed EU consolidate tape for bonds and the related transparency framework.

Transparency in commercial paper

Katie Kelly, Senior Director, Market Practice & Regulatory Policy, speaks about whether there is a need for more and better transparency in commercial paper markets.

CSDR Refit and settlement efficiency

Alex Westphal, secretary to ICMA’s ERCC, speaks about ICMA’s latest work with members to support settlement efficiency in Europe as well as our related advocacy in the context of the ongoing CSDR Refit discussions.

ICMA’s response to the ESAs’ call for evidence on greenwashing

Ozgur Altun, Associate Director of Sustainable Finance at ICMA, talks about the ICMA’s response to the Greenwashing Call for Evidence launched by European regulators in November 2022.